How can I insert posts in a page automatically?

I have bought ‘wordrpess for dummies’ and uploaded it to server but it is all very new to me, it is going well but I am a bit stuck …

I would like to insert posts from a certain category, say ‘Gig Events’ on a specific page, I have found the inline posts plugin but you ave to manually enter the individual post number. Is their a plugin that will select posts from a category automatically and display them on a page?